Posted on 05/20/2011 9:35:07 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
In December of last year, Border Agent Brian Terry was killed by Mexican gang members in an Arizona border shootout.
Two of the weapons recovered from the scene had been part of the ATF’s “Project Gunrunner”, a plot whereby thousands of firearms were deliberately sold to known straw purchasers for Mexican drug cartels, then assisted across the border by the U.S. Justice Department’s ATF itself.
On May 4th, Obama Regime Attorney General Eric Holder sat before the House Judiciary Committee, evading California Representative Darrell Issa’s questions about the Justice Department’s involvement in ATF’s ultimately deadly Gunrunner scheme.
ISSA: “How about the head of the Criminal Division, Lanny Breuer, Did he authorize it?”
HOLDER: “I’m not sure whether Mr. Breuer authorized it. You have to understand the way in which the Department operates. Although there are operations, this one has become–has gotten a great deal of publicity.”
ISSA: “Yeah, there are dead Americans as a result of this failed and reckless program. So I would say that it hasn’t gotten enough attention, has it Mr. Attorney General?”
Later, after enduring all he could stomach of Holder’s reverence for his own department’s phony investigation of the ATF, Issa finally rebuked the self-important bureaucrat, saying “We’re not looking at straw buyers, Mr. Attorney General. We’re looking at you. We’re looking at your key people…who should have known about this…and whether or not the Justice Department is basically guilty of allowing weapons to kill Americans and Mexicans.”
Of course, no one who has learned his arrogance at the knee off the Oval Office Crown Prince of Conceit will allow himself to be beaten down with subpoenas or contempt of Congress hearings.
So Holder has chosen a new tack.
(Excerpt) Read more at coachisright.com ...
Darn, for a second I thought he filed against Bam Bam for knocking off bin Laden.
more hearings on this and everything Obongo does. Shine a light on this chicago thug.
Shades of Janet Reno and Waco.
They need a second 4 years to keep themselves out of jail.
I hope Darrell Issa Holds Eric Holder’s feet to the fire!!
Holder need to step down over this.......... He’s the head of the dept. so the “Buck
should stop with Holder”......Holder needs to “GO”!!
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